Reviews

The recently inaugurated O. Ascanio Gallery, Miami, presented the solo show “Nanín: Recent Works”, and who was also a disciple of Carlos Cruz Diez for 13 years.

José Luis Alonso Mateo (1964, Havana) has focused his works for several years on the analysis of the rites and symbols of power, the high classes, aristocracy and royalty hence perhaps the reason for his being dubbed El Conde (the Count).

Ángel Vapor’s (Havana, Cuba, 1970) artistic oeuvre has been characterized by its versatility and by the enigmatic aura typical of any creative production that includes such diversity of genres and sources

The Every other Day, an exhibition that occupies the spatious first floor of the building adjoining the main exhibition premises of Ideobox Art Space, includes the recent work of eleven artists.

The annual exhibition of works by artists selected for the Grants and Commissions Program of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, CIFO, in Miami, is a reference point.

If there is something conclusive in the work of Héctor Maldonado (Puerto Rico, 1972) it is his versatility.

Henrique Faria Fine Art is closing this season with an exhibition never presented before in the United States: Gerd Leufert & Gego.

Estudios paragráficos is José Damasceno’s (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1968) most recent proposal, a combination of prints and installations created specifically for this exhibition with which the Madrid gallery Distrito 4 opens its new season.

It is not a simple task to interpret in a concise manner a space like the one occupied by the coldstore facility in Madrid’s central slaughter house; Carlos Garaicoa ((Havana, Cuba, 1967) however, has managed to do so.

Chronological leaps and narrative soundness may be found in “Photography in Argentina 1840-2010”, the exhibition that spans the history of the discipline from its origins to the present, through canonical images and other less known ones.

They look like exotic jewels from an Arabian Nights’ tale. We are referrring to the work of an artist with a long and fruitful trajectory, Monique Rozanès.

Who was Ana Mendieta? Who is Ana Mendieta today? “One of the most inventive and iconoclastic artists of the late 20th century;” such the categorical assertion of Olga Viso, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

I first came across the work of Pablo Vargas Lugo (Mexico City, 1968) in the late 1990’s around the time that his seminal pieces began to exhibit internationally, thus becoming referential outside of Mexican contemporary art circles

Pablo Reinoso’s Buenos Aires, 1955 bold oeuvre defies perception; it plays with illusion and with the viewer’s participation, offering a framework for reflection.

In Mateo López’s oeuvre, drawing and its three dimensional projections are analogous to the hand that gropingly explores the world, spreading out into lines over the space with a playfulness that evokes Plato’s Myth of the Cave.

Carlos Cruz-Diez in conversation with Ariel Jiménez is the title of the first of a series of books included in an important editorial project conceived by the Cisneros Foundation, aimed at enriching the history under construction of Latin American art through a valuable resource that has been over looked by critics: the unreplaceable dialogue with the artist.

In search of new images, Marcelo Pombo reached “The Depths of the Sea” (“Lo profundo del mar”) the title of his latest exhibition , and this is the origin of the works he is currently showing at Zavaleta Lab.

Between 12 August and 2 October, 2010, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá is hosting the exhibition “Rosario López: lo informe y el límite” (Rosario López: the shapeless and the limit), in which the Colombian artist presents her most recent production.

From 11 August through 27 October, 2010, the Mint of the Bank of the Republic is hosting the temporary exhibition “Re(cámaras): Espacios para una fotografía extendida”, curated by María Wills Londoño.

Social and artistic memory in Juan Carlos Distéfano. Obras 1958- 2010, the wonderful exhibition featuring more than 70 works by the remarkable Juan Carlos Distéfano (Buenos Aires, 1933), held at the Art Space of the OSDE Foundation in Buenos Aires.

The exhibition of photographies by brothers Graziano and Paolo Gasparini, entitled “2 x Gasparini” takes us back to two visions of contemporary Venezuelan photography.

The title of this exhibition is somewhat disconcerting. Luis Lizardo (Venezuela, Caracas, 1956) is showing his recent work in the framework of the old coffeee drying patios of the Hacienda La Trinidad, in Caracas.

The story of carmine red is associated to sex, violence and political struggles. Also to war and drama. The humble cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) that produces it was always alien to the passions it generated. I

“De Cuba Nelson Domínguez: Pintura, escultura, dibujo y grabados” (“From Cuba Nelson Domínguez: Painting, sculpture, drawing and engraving”), the first solo show of this great Cuban artist in the Dominican Republic, ran from mid-June to the end of September at the welcoming spaces of Alinka Arte Contemporáneo.